Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
Lord knows if it does any good (judging by what happens when we have the temerity to go outside and try to live normal lives it’s often tempting to say it doesn’t), but now and then I feel it’s good to post one of these things in the hope that this time, maybe, just maybe, …
Continue reading “And Now, Your Periodic Reminder Not To Be Asshats To Blind People”
Oh my god this is amazing, and I wish I’d written it. But since I didn’t, I’ll just link to it and give it a +1000. Emojis are cute and they are everywhere. Some of them are quite amusing and I have learned about a few new ones over the years. I don’t mind a …
I know this happened a month ago, but it is always relevant. An acquaintance of mine wrote a post about the consequences of careless drivers to service animals, and I wish I could make this mandatory reading material for people who drive vehicles. People never take into account that just because they didn’t actually hit …
Continue reading “My Dog Shouldn’t Be The Only One Watching For Traffic!”
This story of someone befriending and then ripping off a blind lady is another example of something I could see very easily happening to me if I just did one thing wrong. It also illustrates why, when someone offers to “help me” by taking my stuff, I’m not exactly willing to hand it over. I …
Continue reading “She Took Your Money, But Hopefully Not Your Independence”
Gill has a question. I’m not going to answer it myself since complaining about shit is one of the reasons this place exists and anything that’s already happened has likely been covered, but the rest of you can feel free to have at it. Do you have pet peeves, or things that make you just …
Meet another group of police officers who need to learn the difference between a white cane and a weapon. This happened last year in Winnipeg, but I finally got around to writing it down. It seems that Steven Stairs was walking from a bar to a payphone, and he had the misfortune of being in …
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I saw this disability etiquette video which is full of supposed tips for us dealing with the public, rather than the other way around and after I found the description, I had a really good laugh. I got most of it, but the disabled parking spot scene, the bathroom stall scary music bit, and the …
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I know I have said it over and over and over again before, but I found someone else’s take on it that I thought was pretty well-written, and bonus, it included references to other “feel good stories” I’ve wanted to talk about, so double awesome! It also mentions an issue that I have talked about …
Continue reading “Stop, Ask, Listen: Pretty Straightforward Stuff, Yes?”
I read about this a little while ago, and had a few thoughts about it. Amit Patel is a fellow who has recently gone blind, and he encounters a lot of jerks in his travels. So, he decided to attach a GoPro to his guide dog Kika and capture video evidence of said jerks. Unless …
I wasn’t going to post this because most of it is stuff we’ve gone over here sometimes more than once, but then it got to the last one. We’ve probably covered it too, but since it never fails to blow people’s minds and turn them inside out, there’s no harm in repeating it. No, Carin …